open

Word Origin & History

Old English open "not closed down, raised up" (of gates, eyelids, etc.), also "exposed, evident, well-known, public," often in a bad sense, "notorious, shameless;" from Proto-Germanic *upana, literally "put or set up" (cf. Old Norse opinn, Swedish öppen, Danish aaben, Old Saxon opan, Old Frisian epen, Old High German offan, German offen "open"), from PIE *upo "up from under, over" (cf. Latin sub, Greek hypo; see sub-). Related to up, and throughout Germanic the word has the appearance of a past participle ...

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Example Sentences for open

It was still daylight, and the door of the next dwelling was open.

However, be that as it might, not one of them but knew how to open the sluices.

She arose, and would have gone around the table to him, but he met her with open arms.

The battle was disastrous for the Egyptians and the valley of the Nile was open to the invaders.

The hunters were roving the open, and even ...

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